The basic employment packages for businesses are based on the needs of baby boomers, a very loyal generation of workers, typically staying with the same company for years and years. Employees of this generation highly value their benefits, such as health insurance, life insurance and vacation time.

On Monday when Marriott International shocked the hotel world by announcing its acquisition of Starwood Hotels & Resorts, HOTELS had a chance to speak with Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson to review the deal and ask some questions about what the future will hold for what will become the world's biggest hotel company with more than 1 million guest rooms.

"It's about taking spaces and making them multifaceted," she said. "It might be a breakfast area in the morning and then the same space will be a bar in the evening. It's so important to transcend that space and make it work from one to the other."

The majority of healthcare industry finance executives are increasingly optimistic regarding U.S. economic growth and most financial decision-makers expect to increase their capital expenditures in 2016, according to a recent survey by TD Bank.

From Blue Shield of California suing an ex-executive over confidential company information to the U.S. Supreme Court agreeing to review the Affordable Care Act contraception compromise, here are the latest healthcare industry lawsuits and settlements making headlines.

The consumer appetite for productivity techniques reflects an environment in which work has spilled over from the office to the train, airplane, hotel room, even bed. Productivity tools offer to protect workers from the creep of jobs that lack clear beginnings and ends, whether in hours clocked or outputs produced.

You're a new manager and you want to do well in your new job. In your quest to prove that you can handle people management responsibilities (and achieve your department's objectives), could you be accidentally overworking your team? Here are eight signs to look for: